Najlae Benmbarek is a journalist from Morocco. A recent graduate of the UC Berkeley Journalism School, she came to the US on a Fulbright scholarship. She’s fluent in French and Arabic and recently co-produced TV magazine pieces in France and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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Bob Calo is the Program Coordinator for the US Military Abroad project for News 21. He is a Senior Lecturer at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley.

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Aaron Selverston is an independent writer/producer/videographer based
in San Francisco, whose work has appeared on Salon.com, NPR, Frontline
World’s website, and elsewhere. He recently earned his Master’s degree
from the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley and is working as
a Carnegie-Knight Fellow with News21.

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Katya Kumkova-Wolpert just finished her first year at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. She speculates shamelessly on the fact that she speaks Russian to weezle her way into participating in programs that are really meant for recent j-school graduates. She hopes to be a documentary filmmaker one day.

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Well, we’re supposed to blog. So blog we will. Don’t get me wrong - I like sitting down and getting things out on paper: the things you’ve just seen, all those things that are noteworthy, foreign, exotic. But there ain’t much to get out just yet. We’re still at school. The computers still require [see entire entry...]

Eunjo recalls visiting Yongsan Garrison as an elementary school student. She learned to speak English at the base under the instruction of an American soldier’s wife. Now 24, Eunjo is majoring in German and in mass media and communication at Sogang University.

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Dae-Keun may be the most military-savvy member of this summer’s reporting team, having served in KATUSA for two years. KATUSA stands for the Korean Augmentation to the U.S. Army, a program in which Korean soldiers, like Dae-Keun, serve with the U.S. Army. This unique, cooperative relationship dates back to 1950, the start of the Korean [see entire entry...]

Sung Hyun is a senior at Sogang University in Seoul, double majoring in mass communication and Korean literature and language. She has worked as a reporter at MunHwa, a Korean daily newspaper, and at the Korean web magazine , Zime. Last year, Sung Hyun spent part of her summer in the United States as [see entire entry...]

Shooting the sunset tonight, I had three people walk over to me and say "this is why I joined."  A small part of me is starting to get it.   There’s an incredible calm on the flight deck.  It’s this enormous platform on the back side of the ship with a big x in the middle.  And once you’re out there all you see is this multilayered horizon– grey flight deck, blue ocean and sky.  [see entire entry...]

Of all the material luxuries, I think what I miss the most is a long shower.
I was lucky on my first evening aboard the USS Tortuga: I had plenty of hot water. Not so on the second night, when I resorted to splashing frigid water on my face. But after filming for a few hours in the ship’s engine room, which feels akin to a Bikram Yoga studio, I crave a comfortable shower.
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